Politics and Government
| Name | Nationality | Honour | Year | Category | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó, 17th Duke of Alba de Tormes | Spain | GCVO | 1902 | Politics/Government | |
| Emeka Anyaoku | Nigeria | GCVO | 2000 | Politics/Government | |
| Count d'Arnoso | Portugal | KCVO | tbd | Politics/Government | Private Secretary to the King of Portugal. Subsequently promoted GCVO in 1903. |
| Count d'Arnoso | Portugal | GCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Private Secretary to the King of Portugal. |
| Franz Joseph von Auersperg | Austria | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | Privy Councillor and Chamberlain to The Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary. |
| Joseph Avenol | France | KBE | 1921 | Politics/Government | |
| Antonio Jose d'Avila | Portugal | KCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Lord Mayor of Lisbon |
| Ayub Khan | Pakistan | RVC | tbd | Politics/Government | |
| Ayub Khan | Pakistan | GCMG | 1960 | Politics/Government | (Field Marshal) President of Pakistan |
| August Graf Bellegarde | Austria-Hungary | KCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Master of the Household to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary. |
| Alexis, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt | German Empire | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | |
| Hermann Baron von Bilfinger | Württemberg | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | General Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty the King of Württemberg |
| Anatol, Count Biogot de Saint-Quentin | Austria-Hungary | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | Major General Anatol was Comptroller to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary. |
| Robert, Count de Bourboulon | Bulgaria | GCVO | 1905 | Politics/Government | Lord Chamberlain to the Prince of Bulgaria |
| Henri, Marquis de Breteuil | France | KCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | |
| George H. W. Bush | United States | GCB | 1993 | Politics/Government | |
| Felipe Calderón | Mexico | GCB | 2009 | Politics/Government | |
| Nicolae Ceauşescu | Romania | GCB | 1978 | Politics/Government | Annulled 1989 |
| Anson Chan | China | GCMG | 2002 | Politics/Government | |
| Chentung Liang-Chang | China | KCMG | 1897 | Politics/Government | |
| Chentung Liang-Chang | China | KCVO | 1909 | Politics/Government | |
| Cherif Pasha | Egypt | GCSI | 1878 | Politics/Government | |
| Eduard Graf Choloniewski Myszka | Austria | KCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Master of the Ceremonies to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary |
| Prospero Colonna (politician) | Italy | GCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | (Prince of Sonnino) Syndic of Rome |
| Abel Combarieu | France | GCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Secretary General and Chief of the Household of the President of France |
| Émile Combes | France | GCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | President of the Council |
| Charles, Count Coudenhove | Austria-Hungary | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | Governor of Bohemia |
| Philippe Crozier | France | KCVO | 1898 | Politics/Government | |
| Christian Frederik, Count Danneskjold-Samsöe | Denmark | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | |
| Théophile Delcassé | France | GCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Johan Deuntzer | Denmark | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | |
| Alphonse Deville | France | GCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | President of the Municipal Council |
| António Ramalho Eanes | Portugal | RVC | 1985 | Politics/Government | |
| Gustavus Ernest of Erbach-Schönberg | Württemberg | KCVO | 1898 | Politics/Government | |
| Gustavus Ernest of Erbach-Schönberg | Württemberg | GCVO | 1900 | Politics/Government | |
| Walter Asmus Charles Frederick Eberhard, Baron von Esebeck | German Empire | KCVO | 1909 | Politics/Government | Deputy Master of the Horse to the German Emperor, King of Prussia. |
| Hussein Fakhry Pasha | Egypt | KCMG | 1902 | Politics/Government | Minister of Public Works fo service in connection with the building of the Aswan Dam |
| Luiz Coutinho Borges de Medeiros, Marquis of Fayal | Portugal | GCVO | 1909 | Politics/Government | Lord in Waiting |
| Tassilo, Count Festétics de Tolna | tbd | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | |
| Antonio, Count of Figueiro | tbd | GCVO | 1905 | Politics/Government | |
| Arturo Frondizi | Argentina | GCMG | 1960 | Politics/Government | President of the Argentine Republic |
| Eduardo Galhardo | Portugal | KCIE | 1901 | Politics/Government | Governor-General of Portuguese India |
| Count Romeo Gallenga-Stuart | Italy | KBE | tbd | Politics/Government | Under-Secretary for Press and Propaganda, for fostering good relations between Italy and Great Britain. |
| Maumoon Abdul Gayoom | Maldives | GCMG | 2000 | Politics/Government | |
| Count Cesare Gianotti | Italy | GCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Master of the Household to the King of Italy |
| Rudolph W. Giuliani | United States | KBE | 2002 | Politics/Government | Federal prosecutor; two-term Mayor of New York City. |
| Balbino Giuliano | Italy | GBE | 1930 | Politics/Government | Minister of Public Education |
| Agenor Graf Goluchowski von Goluchowo | Austria-Hungary | GCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Minister of the Imperial and Royal House and Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| Alan Greenspan | United States | KBE | 2002 | Politics/Government | |
| Leopold Baron von Gudenus | Austria-Hungary | KCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Oberjagermeister to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary |
| John Ritter von Habrda | Austria-Hungary | KCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | Commissioner of Police, Vienna |
| Han Seung-soo | South Korea | KBE | 2004 | Politics/Government | |
| Václav Havel | Czech Republic | GCB | 1996 | Politics/Government | |
| Gustav Heinemann | West Germany | GCB | 1972 | Politics/Government | President of West Germany |
| Count Basil Hendrikov | tbd | GCVO | 1909 | Politics/Government | |
| Sassoon Effendi Heskail | tbd | KBE | tbd | Politics/Government | |
| Harri Holkeri | Finland | KBE | 1999 | Politics/Government | |
| Mohammed Ikramullah | Pakistan | KCMG | 1961 | Politics/Government | |
| Ito Yukichi | Japan | KCVO | 1905 | Politics/Government | |
| Dato Onn Bin Ja'Afar | tbd | KBE | 1953 | Politics/Government | |
| Muhammad Hasan Jan | tbd | GCVO | tbd | Politics/Government | |
| Martin Baron von Jenisch | tbd | GCVO | 1908 | Politics/Government | |
| Bhim Shumshere Jung | Nepal | KCVO | tbd | Politics/Government | |
| Bhim Shumshere Jung | Nepal | KCSI | 1917 | Politics/Government | Subsequently promoted GCSI in 1931. |
| Bhim Shumshere Jung | Nepal | GCSI | 1931 | Politics/Government | |
| Judha Shumshere Jung | Nepal | KCIE | 1917 | Politics/Government | Subsequently promoted GCIE. |
| Judha Shumshere Jung | Nepal | GCIE | tbd | Politics/Government | |
| Judha Shumshere Jung | Nepal | GCSI | 1935 | Politics/Government | |
| Kang Young-Hoon | South Korea | KBE | 1995 | Politics/Government | |
| Kajetan von Kapos-Mére | Austria-Hungary | KCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Second Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Vienna |
| Hamid Karzai | Afghanistan | GCMG | 2003 | Politics/Government | |
| Abera Kassa (Dejazmatch) | Ethiopia | KBE | 1932 | Politics/Government | Son of Ras Kassa, handed over to the Italians (by Ras Hailu of Gojjam)who shot him & his brother dead immediately after capture. |
| Edward Kennedy | United States | KBE | 2009 | Politics/Government | |
| Erich Graf Kielmansegg | Austria-Hungary | KCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Governor of Lower Austria. Subsequently promoted GCVO in 1904. |
| Erich Graf Kielmansegg | Austria-Hungary | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | Governor of Lower Austria |
| Kim Dae-jung | South Korea | GCB | tbd | Politics/Government | |
| Kim Dae-jung | South Korea | GCMG | tbd | Politics/Government | |
| Helmut Kohl | Germany | GCMG | tbd | Politics/Government | |
| Martin Charles Augustus Kirschner | German Empire | KCVO | 1909 | Politics/Government | Chief Burgomaster of Berlin |
| Julius Benedictus, Count Krag Juel Vind Frijs | Denmark | KCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | Promoted from CVO. |
| Magens Christian, Count Krag Juel Vind Frijs | Denmark | KCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | |
| John Kufuor | Ghana | GCB | 2007 | Politics/Government | |
| Husein Kuli Khan | tbd | KCIE | 1902 | Politics/Government | |
| Pier Francesco, Marchese di Lajatico | Italy | KCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Crown Equerry to the King of Italy |
| Pierre-Olivier Lapie | tbd | KBE | tbd | Politics/Government | |
| Alfred, Marquis de Lau d'Allemand | tbd | KCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | |
| Jose d'Almeida Correa de Sa, Marquis of Lavradio | Portugal | GCVO | 1909 | Politics/Government | Private Secretary |
| Lee Kuan Yew | Singapore | CH | 1970 | Politics/Government | Prime Minister of Singapore |
| Lee Kuan Yew | Singapore | GCMG | 1972 | Politics/Government | Prime Minister of Singapore |
| Hans Ritter von Lex | West Germany | KBE | 1961 | Politics/Government | Former state secretary in the west German Interior Ministry, for services to Anglo-German relations. |
| Wenceslau de Lima | Portugal | GCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Joseph Luns | Netherlands | CH | 1971 | Politics/Government | |
| Heinrich Graf Lützow zu Drey Lützow | Austria | KCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | First Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Vienna. |
| Ferenc Mádl | Hungary | GCMG | 2002 | Politics/Government | |
| Sayyed Abdelrahman el-Mahdi | tbd | KBE | 1926 | Politics/Government | |
| Mohammed Pasha Mahmud | tbd | GCMG | 1929 | Politics/Government | |
| Nelson Mandela | South Africa | OM | 1995 | Politics/Government | |
| Ferdinand Meldahl | Denmark | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | |
| Paul Metternich | German Empire | GCVO | 1901 | Politics/Government | |
| Andreas Michalakopoulos | Greece | KBE | tbd | Politics/Government | |
| Mirza Hussein Khan | Iran | GCSI | 1873 | Politics/Government | |
| George J. Mitchell | United States | GBE | 1999 | Politics/Government | |
| François Mitterrand | France | GCB | tbd | Politics/Government | |
| François Mitterrand | France | RVC | 1992 | Politics/Government | |
| Joachim Moltke | Denmark | GCVO | 1896 | Politics/Government | |
| Felipe, Duke of Montellano | Spain | GCVO | 1905 | Politics/Government | |
| Alfred, 2nd Prince of Montenuovo | Austria-Hungary | GCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Second Lord Steward to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary. |
| Kengo Mori | Japan | KBE | 1927 | Politics/Government | Financial Commissioner to the Imperial Japanese Government in London, Paris and New York. |
| Robert Mugabe | Zimbabwe | GCB | 1994 | Politics/Government | Annulled 2008 |
| Benito Mussolini | Italy | GCB | 1923 | Politics/Government | Annulled 1940 |
| Muhammad Tawfiq Nasim Pasha | Egypt | GCMG | 1920 | Politics/Government | |
| Ameer Ibrahim Nasir | Maldives | KBE | 1972 | Politics/Government | President of the Republic of Maldives |
| Constantin Freiherr von Neurath | Germany | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | Lord Chamberlain to His Majesty The King of Württemberg |
| Nubar Pasha | Egypt | GCSI | 1896 | Politics/Government | |
| Waldemar Oldenburg | Denmark | KCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | |
| Manuel Augusto Pereira da Cunha | Portugal | KCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Civil Governor of Lisbon |
| Hassan Pirnia | Iran | GCMG | 1907 | Politics/Government | |
| Byron Price | United States | KBE | 1948 | Politics/Government | |
| Husain Khan Qazvini | tbd | GCSI | 1873 | Politics/Government | |
| Mahdi Quli Khan-e Qajar Quyunlu | tbd | KCMG | 1889 | Politics/Government | |
| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | India | OM | 1963 | Politics/Government | |
| Tunku Abdul Rahman | Malaysia | CH | 1961 | Politics/Government | |
| Fidel V. Ramos | Philippines | GCMG | 1995 | Politics/Government | |
| Tun Abdul Razak | Malaysia | GCMG | 1972 | Politics/Government | |
| Ronald Reagan | United States | GCB | 1989 | Politics/Government | |
| Carl Baron von der Recke | tbd | KCVO | 1905 | Politics/Government | |
| Eck Baron von Reischach | Württemberg | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | Lord Chamberlain to the Queen of Wurtemberg |
| Hugo Freiherr von Reischach | tbd | KCVO | 1897 | Politics/Government | |
| Oswald Baron von Richthofen | German Empire | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Charles de Rocca-Serra | tbd | KCMG | 1917 | Politics/Government | |
| Ernst von Röder | tbd | KCVO | 1902 | Politics/Government | |
| Roh Moo-hyun | South Korea | GCB | 2004 | Politics/Government | |
| Carlos Roma du Bocage | Portugal | GCVO | 1909 | Politics/Government | Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| F. W. F. Rosenstand | tbd | KCVO | 1901 | Politics/Government | |
| Friedrich von Ruexleben | tbd | KCVO | 1905 | Politics/Government | |
| Dean Rusk | United States | KBE | 1976 | Politics/Government | Former Secretary of State for contribution to Anglo-American friendship |
| Saba Pasha | tbd | KCMG | 1907 | Politics/Government | |
| Antonio Vasco de Mello Silva Cezar e Menezes, Count of Sabugosa | Portugal | GCVO | 1909 | Politics/Government | Lord Steward |
| Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun | Iraq | KCMG | 1926 | Politics/Government | |
| Safvet Pasha | tbd | GCSI | 1878 | Politics/Government | |
| Mohammed Said Pasha | tbd | GCMG | 1912 | Politics/Government | |
| Saito Momotaro | tbd | GCVO | 1905 | Politics/Government | |
| Mariano, Duke of Santo Mauro | Spain | GCVO | 1905 | Politics/Government | Lord in Waiting to the King of Spain |
| Justin de Selves | France | GCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Prefect of Seine |
| Fernando Eduardo de Serpa Pimentel | Portugal | KCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | (Captain) Aide-de-Camp |
| Eduard Shevardnadze | Georgia | GCMG | 2000 | Politics/Government | |
| Said Shoucair Pasha | tbd | KBE | 1924 | Politics/Government | |
| Ismail Sirry Pasha | tbd | KCMG | 1913 | Politics/Government | |
| Duke of Sotomayor | Spain | GCVO | 1902 | Politics/Government | Great Chamberlain to the King of Spain |
| Georges de Staal | tbd | GCVO | 1902 | Politics/Government | |
| Dirk Stikker | Netherlands | GBE | 1951 | Politics/Government | |
| Dirk Stikker | Netherlands | GCVO | 1958 | Politics/Government | |
| Karl Friedrich von Strenge | tbd | KCVO | 1899 | Politics/Government | |
| Suharto | Indonesia | GCB | 1974 | Politics/Government | |
| Cevdet Sunay | Turkey | KCB | 1967 | Politics/Government | |
| Count Tarouca | Portugal | GCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | Chamberlain to the King of Portugal. Attached to King Edward VII. |
| Clément Thomas | tbd | GCIE | 1893 | Politics/Government | |
| Nicholas Thon | tbd | KCVO | tbd | Politics/Government | Subsequently promoted GCVO in 1905. |
| Nicholas Thon | tbd | GCVO | 1905 | Politics/Government | |
| Josip Broz Tito | Yugoslavia | GCB | 1972 | Politics/Government | |
| Tommaso Tittoni | Italy | GCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | |
| Ali El Tom | tbd | KBE | 1926 | Politics/Government | |
| Karl Prince Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg | tbd | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | |
| Alexander Trepoff | tbd | KCMG | 1916 | Politics/Government | |
| Danilo Türk | Slovenia | GCB | 2008 | Politics/Government | |
| Simone Veil | France | DBE | 1998 | Politics/Government | Holocaust survivor; lawyer and politician who served as France's Minister of Health. |
| Antonio Villaça | tbd | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | |
| Wenceslau Ramirez de Villa-Urrutia | Spain | GCVO | 1905 | Politics/Government | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Count Carl Wachtmeister | tbd | KCVO | 1908 | Politics/Government | |
| John Warner | United States | KBE | 2009 | Politics/Government | |
| Rudolf de Weede | tbd | KCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | |
| Caspar Weinberger | United States | GBE | 1988 | Politics/Government | |
| Richard von Weizsäcker | Germany | RVC | 1992 | Politics/Government | |
| John Gilbert Winant | United States | OM | 1947 | Politics/Government | |
| August von Wöllwarth-Lauterburg | Württemberg | GCVO | 1900 | Politics/Government | |
| Robert Worcester | United States | KBE | 2004 | Politics/Government | Became a British national in 2005 and his knighthood became substantive. |
| Ketema Yifru | Ethiopia | KCMG | 1965 | Politics/Government | |
| Giuseppe Zanardelli | Italy | GCVO | 1903 | Politics/Government | President of the Council |
| Jose Zarco de Camara, Count of Ribeira Grande | tbd | GCVO | 1904 | Politics/Government | |
| Zulfikar Pasha | Egypt | KBE | 1920 | Politics/Government |
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